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History of under-researched individual anatomical departments and projects on related medical disciplines, such as gynecology

Ethics in anatomical education, national and international: development of recommendations and guidelines on various questions of ethics in anatomy

Medicine during and beyond the Holocaust: reconstruction of biographies of victims and survivors

Work on project: Reframing Anatomy as a “Safe Space” for Acquiring Professional Competencies: The Role of History and Ethics of Anatomy in Medical Education

Bio

Dr. Hildebrandt is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, and a lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After medical studies at the University of Marburg, Germany, and a professional start in experimental rheumatology, she became an anatomical educator. In this capacity she worked at the University of Michigan Medical School from 2002 to 2013, and since then at Harvard. Her research interests are the history and ethics of anatomy, and specifically the history of anatomy in National Socialist Germany, a field in which she is an internationally recognized expert. One focus of her work is the restoration of biographies of victims of the Holocaust. Her educational approach integrates anatomy, medical history and medical ethics. She teaches these topics at Harvard Medical School and Harvard College. Her book “The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich”, published by Berghahn Books in 2016 and in paperback July 2017, is the first systematic study of anatomy during National Socialism.

Hildebrandt, Sabine. The Anatomy of Murder, Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich. New York: Berghahn , 2017. Print.

Hildebrandt S, Czarnowski G. Research on the boundary between life and death: coercive experiments on pregnant women and their fetuses during National Socialism. In: Weindling PJ (ed.): From clinic to concentration camp. Reassessing Nazi medical and racial research, 1933-1945. London: Routledge, p73-100, 2017.

Hildebrandt S, Seidelman WE. Invited Editorial. Where do they come from? A call for complete transparency regarding the origin of human tissues in research. ESMO Open, online journal for the European Society of Oncology, DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2017-000201 Published 23 June 2017.